Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin, the foreigners’ stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt. New Living Translation You turn mighty cities into heaps of ruins. Cities with strong walls are turned to rubble. Beautiful palaces in distant lands disappear and will never be rebuilt. English Standard Version For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners’ palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt. Berean Standard Bible Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt. King James Bible For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. New King James Version For You have made a city a ruin, A fortified city a ruin, A palace of foreigners to be a city no more; It will never be rebuilt. New American Standard Bible For You have turned a city into a heap, A fortified city into a ruin; A palace of strangers is no longer a city, It will never be rebuilt. NASB 1995 For You have made a city into a heap, A fortified city into a ruin; A palace of strangers is a city no more, It will never be rebuilt. NASB 1977 For Thou hast made a city into a heap, A fortified city into a ruin; A palace of strangers is a city no more, It will never be rebuilt. Legacy Standard Bible For You have made a city into a heap, A fortified town into a ruin; A palace of strangers is a city no more, It will never be rebuilt. Amplified Bible For You have made a city into a heap [of trash], A fortified city into a ruin; A palace of foreigners is no longer a city, It will never be rebuilt. Christian Standard Bible For you have turned the city into a pile of rocks, a fortified city, into ruins; the fortress of barbarians is no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt. Holman Christian Standard Bible For You have turned the city into a pile of rocks, a fortified city, into ruins; the fortress of barbarians is no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt. American Standard Version For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Because you have made the city a heap of stones, and the mighty city into a ruin! A shrine of foreigners from the city shall never be built again! Brenton Septuagint Translation For thou hast made cities a heap, even cities made strong that their foundations should not fall: the city of ungodly men shall not be built for ever. Contemporary English Version You have destroyed the fortress of our enemies, leaving their city in ruins. Nothing in that foreign city will ever be rebuilt. Douay-Rheims Bible For thou hast reduced the city to a heap, the strong city to ruin, the house of strangers, to be no city, and to be no more built up for ever. English Revised Version For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. GOD'S WORD® Translation You have turned cities into ruins, fortified cities into piles of rubble, and foreigners' palaces into cities that will never be rebuilt. Good News Translation You have turned cities into ruins and destroyed their fortifications. The palaces which our enemies built are gone forever. International Standard Version For you have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified city into a ruin; the foreigners' citadel is no longer a city— it will never be rebuilt! JPS Tanakh 1917 For Thou hast made of a city a heap, Of a fortified city a ruin; A castle of strangers to be no city, It shall never be built. Literal Standard Version For You made of a city a heap, | Of a fortified city a ruin, | A high place of strangers from [being] a city, | It is not built for all time. Majority Standard Bible Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt. New American Bible For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin, The castle of the insolent, a city no more, not ever to be rebuilt. NET Bible Indeed, you have made the city into a heap of rubble, the fortified town into a heap of ruins; the fortress of foreigners is no longer a city, it will never be rebuilt. New Revised Standard Version For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of aliens is a city no more, it will never be rebuilt. New Heart English Bible For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of the insolent is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt. Webster's Bible Translation For thou hast made of a city a heap; of a fortified city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. World English Bible For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built. Young's Literal Translation For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from being a city, To the age it is not built. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Song of Praise for God's Favor1O LORD, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders—plans formed long ago—in perfect faithfulness. 2Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt. 3Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.… Cross References Deuteronomy 13:16 And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt. Job 12:14 What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released. Isaiah 13:22 Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon's time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged. Isaiah 17:1 This is the burden against Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins. Isaiah 17:3 The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the sovereignty from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendor of the Israelites," declares the LORD of Hosts. Isaiah 23:11 The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed. Isaiah 25:12 The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust. Treasury of Scripture For you have made of a city an heap; of a defended city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. for Isaiah 25:12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust. Isaiah 14:23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. palace Isaiah 13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. Revelation 18:2,3,19 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird… Jump to Previous Age Aliens Broken Built Castle City Defenced End Fenced Foreigners Fortified Heap High Mass Palace Pride Rebuilt Rubble Ruin Strangers Strong Stronghold Tower Walls WasteJump to Next Age Aliens Broken Built Castle City Defenced End Fenced Foreigners Fortified Heap High Mass Palace Pride Rebuilt Rubble Ruin Strangers Strong Stronghold Tower Walls WasteIsaiah 25 1. Song of Praise for God's Favor(2) Thou hast made of a city an heap.--The city spoken of as "the palace of strangers" was, probably in the prophet's thought, that which he identified with the oppressors and destroyers of his people--i.e., Nineveh or Babylon; but that city was also for him the representation of the world-power which in every age opposes itself to the righteousness of God's kingdom. The Babylon of Isaiah becomes the type of the mystical Babylon of the Apocalypse. The words as they stand expand the thought of Isaiah 24:10. (Comp. Isaiah 27:10.)Verse 2. - Thou hast made of a city an heap. No particular city is pointed at. The prophet has in his mind the fate of all those cities which have been enemies of Jehovah and persecutors of the saints upon earth. A defended city; i.e. "a fenced, or fortified, city." A palace of strangers. As the "city" of this passage is not an individual city, so the "palace" is not an individual palace. All the palaces of those who were "strangers" to God and his covenant have ceased to be - they are whelmed in the general destruction (see Isaiah 24:20). They will never rise again out of their ruins. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Indeed,כִּ֣י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction You have turned שַׂ֤מְתָּ (śam·tā) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set the city מֵעִיר֙ (mê·‘îr) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5892: Excitement into a heap of rubble, לַגָּ֔ל (lag·gāl) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1530: Something rolled, a heap of stone, dung, a spring of water a fortified בְצוּרָ֖ה (ḇə·ṣū·rāh) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 1219: To cut off, make inaccessible, enclose town קִרְיָ֥ה (qir·yāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7151: A town, city into ruins; לְמַפֵּלָ֑ה (lə·map·pê·lāh) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 4654: Something fallen, a ruin the fortress אַרְמ֤וֹן (’ar·mō·wn) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 759: A citadel of strangers זָרִים֙ (zā·rîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery [is] a city [no more]; מֵעִ֔יר (mê·‘îr) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5892: Excitement it will never לְעוֹלָ֖ם (lə·‘ō·w·lām) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5769: Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always be rebuilt. יִבָּנֶֽה׃ (yib·bā·neh) Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1129: To build Links Isaiah 25:2 NIVIsaiah 25:2 NLT Isaiah 25:2 ESV Isaiah 25:2 NASB Isaiah 25:2 KJV Isaiah 25:2 BibleApps.com Isaiah 25:2 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 25:2 Chinese Bible Isaiah 25:2 French Bible Isaiah 25:2 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 25:2 For you have made a city into (Isa Isi Is) |
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